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Publication Date: 2017
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Teachers as Human Capital or Human Beings? USAID's Perspective on Teachers
Ginsburg, Mark
Current Issues in Comparative Education, v20 n1 p6-30 Fall 2017
This article analyzes three USAID education strategy documents (1998, 2005, and 2011) as well as USAID's requests for proposals for three projects to assess how teachers are represented. The main findings indicate that USAID education strategy documents a) treat teachers as human capital, a human resource input, rather than as human beings and b) characterize teachers as implementers of policy rather than as key stakeholders who should also be involved in dialogue and decision making about educational policy at various levels of the system. These findings are compared with those resulting from a similar analysis of World Bank education strategy documents.
Descriptors: International Organizations, Educational Attitudes, Teachers, Educational Strategies, Position Papers, Human Capital, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Characteristics, Human Resources, Teacher Role, Professional Associations, Union Members, Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Objectives
Teachers College, Columbia University. International and Transcultural Studies, P.O. Box 211, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027. e-mail: info@cicejournal.org; Web site: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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